Keep a strict watch over a headstrong
daughter, lest she make you a laughingstock to your enemies,
a source of gossip in the city and notorious among the people
and a disgrace to you before the great multitude.
(Sirach 42, 11)

Kateri, felis quae carnem devorat
in feriis sextis Quadragesimae
Kateri insists on eating meat on the Fridays of Lent. I told
her, Youre a bad Catholic! Good Catholics dont
eat meat on the Fridays of Lent! She said, You should
pay attention to what Bishop Barres says! He says that the law
of abstinence is binding only on those who have had their 14th
birthday. I said, But the Bishop was referring to
human years. In human years you are at least 70 years old.
Im sorry Kateri said but I have already
spoken with a doctor of canon law on this matter and he assures
me that I am not bound to the law of abstinence. Can
you give me his name? I asked. I choose not to
she said. Shes just blowing smoke! She never spoke with
any doctor of canon law! Im sure she didnt!